Text background color on tabs

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January 14, 2025
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Hello, I'm trying to create text in the paragraph designer with a background color. I'm utilizing the numbering properties and it would be
S:\t<n=1>\t

It almost works, but the tabs don't have the colored background and spacing doesn't work since it isn't consistent with the size of the spacing. Looking for any other work arounds or suggestions. The goal is to have a colored box background with equal spacing for each number in the center of the background square.

DebralynnMedDevAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks Bjørn, unfortunatley I don't want the entire paragraph the background color. The font background color, doesn't work within a tab. All other copy will be colored with the background, but the tab spacing doesn't pick up the color.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

DebralynnMedDev: …unfortunatley I don't want the entire paragraph the background color.

Actually, you might, depending on progress with the An approach.
Create a Character Format, perhaps named "Plain",
attributes set to As-Is for everything except
Background: None
and apply it to the range of the para that you don't want to have the tab simulation.

Update: Alas, the tabbed region is still not BG-color